Tech Tip

Product: Series 15/Series 44

Tech Tip #: SCSI.009

Originator: Peter Jarrett

Date: September 1992

Subject: Interactive (3.0 and 3.0.1) Follow-up Report

Sunsoft Corporation (the owners of Interactive products) has made
modifications to the Bustek Driver so that it will recognize Bustek
compatible SCSI controllers. These changes are not present in the current
release of Interactive 3.0.1 but will be available from Sunsoft as a
driver update diskette upon customer request.

I have been trying to get permission to distribute this driver to our
customers with the earlier release of Interactive 3.0 in order to correct
the current configuration problem, but to no avail.

Characteristics of Old Bustek Driver

1. The Series 44 does not work with Interactive 3.0.

2. The Bustek driver for Interactive 3.0.1 does not work under the
following situations:

a. EISA motherboard with AMIBIOS and Bustek 742A card.

b. Series 15 or Series 44 on an American Megatrends
motherboard.

Characteristics of New Bustek Driver

1. If more than one controllers are configured in the system under
Interactive's kernel configuration, these controllers should all be of the
same type. They are, however, looking into correcting the problem in the
next major release of their operating system.

2. The "etc/conf/pack.d/bt742/space.c" file now contains a text
configuration file that a user with root privilege can modify for future
series number changes in American Megatrends SCSI controller boards.

The new FLUSH UTILITY diskette that will install under Interactive 3.0.1.
is not released, but is prepared for release on the first customer
complaint.